Since my first research visit to Malta in November 1999 I've learned that objects -- and even places -- of archaeological importance can and do disappear here in mysterious ways. For example, ancient...

She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred...

Oh, Karamazov, I am deeply unhappy.

Leo didn't usually think of the ukulele as a sad instrument. (Pathetic, sure. But not sad.) Yet the tune Apollo strummed was so melancholy it broke Leo's feels.

La bellezza è raramente dolce o consolatoria. Quasi l'opposto. La vera bellezza è sempre un po' inquietante.

I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the...

George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?Martha: I am, George. I am.

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

Chaol, he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. Treat her well.

At least I don't look like a Christmas tree.You look like the star atop the tree.

As that fucking chandelier twinkled overhead, Blay said roughly, I'm still in love with him.Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed a the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint...

And all he wants is to throw a rager in your sugar mill? Then she frowned. Wow. That sounded raunchy.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets but I have found that when...

When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.

Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.

You are more powerful than your government, and your government are worried the day you discover it!!!

You were too busy chasing unrequited love that you forgot you could be beautiful to someone.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.